The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-09

caused by these women. Their affec-
lions are invariably miscellaneous. but
unlike the general booty of the raid, the
men don't want to divld1 them. Steal
ing women from one side of the river to
the other is a favorite pastime when
smuggling is dull and general thievery
stagnant. Enterprises of this kind fire.
quently end in the death of two men
and one woman directly, and then re-
prlsals from both sides are bound to fol-
lJW.
About ten months ago a soldier of the
Eighth United States cavalry received his
q: discharge at Laredo and NOV 4 with
Mexican prostitute to Rio GranGe City,
N Starr county, where he settled down
TO blacksmithing. All went fairly
enough for three months, when disputes
arose between the ex-soldier and his
6revet-wife on account of alleged inli-
deiitles on the part Of the latter. Fin
ally, one night, when the blacksmith e.
turned TO his hut he found the woman
missing. A search of the town failed to
reveal her whereabouts. Next morning
he was informed that she was seen III
company with Jake Long, a notorious
rusller, making her way down the river
He mounted horse and gave persuit
After riding about fifty miles ne reached
anumber of dug-outs, and was informed
that the object of his search was in the
settlement. In few minutes he found
her in a dugout with Long. He
promptly killed Long, and almost as
promptly the woman killed him. The
noise OF the shooting attracted thu
mixed croWed of Americans and
Thn E.
OF killing the woman to make amends
for the death of the two men. The
MeXicans objected; shooting COM
menced; four men were killed and the
MeXicans getting the best of the fight,
took the woman across the river. A few
days ago she killed captain in the
Mexican army at Matamoras, and is
| now in jail in that city.
The big merchants of Monterey, Lam
pszos, and other Mexican cities, and
the wealthy cattle kings of Southwestern
Texas encourage the outlaws to resist.
The Mexican merchants need them in
| their smuggling operations, and the
reXan cattlemen find them a valuable
agency for obtaining cheap Mexican
cattle. While the Texas cartlemen are
sometimes robbed by Mexicans with
connivance of the American rustlers.
the struggled mercantile trains are
more frequently robbed by Americans
| with the connivance of Mexican
rusllers. 1t is to a great extent case
of the bitter getting bit. Some OF the
finest fortunes in Northern Mexico
were made through smuggling opera
lions. II is no infrequent sight to see
100 burros laden with mercantile stores
tart across a sandy mesquite
dotted desert from the Rio Grande.
/ Sometimes a cargo of goods bound
for Monterey is il hiding on
this side of the river for months
before an opportunity to evade the
customs officials presents itself. Some
times a contract is entered into with the
desperadoes to convey the goods safely
across the Rio Grande and hundred
miles beyond. Sometimes enterprlsing
smugglers attempt TO give the outlaws
| the slip and WORK their way alone, but
it is only in very rare cases that such
enterprises succeed, and when they fall
it is cheaper for the merchant to put
his goods through the regular custom
house.
Both the United States and Mexico
employ a number of custom house
guards to watch the smugglers, but Ii
would take $1,000 men to patrol the
river banks securely from Laredo to
| Brownsville.